The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-07-29

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-Axey Cherry. a colored child, twelve
years old, has been sentenced to be hanged
I in Barnwel: county, s. C., for numbering an
infant Ii was horrible murder and was
effected by forcing concentrated lye down
, the baby's throat. Still, the enlightened
| thought and judgment of the world will
hardly accept the assumption that child
twelve years old can attain a sufficient de
gree of moral responsibility 20 merit the
death penalty for The commission OF any
crime.
Joseph Ellison, OF Toronto, took his two
! little boys out in a small boat the other eve
: ming. and one hundred yards from the dock
one of the boys fell overheard. Ellison, a
poor swimmer. at once jumped in after him,
! and grasped the boy, who chung to his neck,
dragging him down. The father shouted for
help, but the persons on the dock thought
that he was teaching his child to swim
! Finally boat put ont, and as il drew near,
Ellison, completely exhausted, pushed his
boy away from him, and gasping Save the
boy Never mind me I" sank to the bottom
and was drowned. The boy was saved.
Reports received by the United States
photographic Office at Washington, indicate
that this summer an unusually large num-
Der OF icebergs have drfted very much
further ~ the southwark than they usually
do. In the past six weeks more than forty
have been reported. Capt. Baker, OF the
Rotterdam steamer W. a. Scholten, men
tions passing one on his last trip westward
that was fifty feet above the water, and
that must have covered many acres at Its
base. Ouly one-eighth of berg is above
the sea, and from this the entire siza can
be readily calculated. Many other captaihs
have seen large icebergs in southern lati-
tudes.
The Farm Journal says "a years
old, colt sheds two centre nippers at }
years old, colt sheds adjoining teeth; at 4
years old, colt sheds outer or corner teeth
at years old, bride tooth is up at years
old, cups leave two centre teeth below ri
yeaI5 old. cup leave adjoining teeth at &
years old, cup leave outer or corner teeth
at years old. cup leave two centIe nippers
at 10 years old, cups leave adjoining teeth
at IL years old, cups leave corner upper
teeth /; at IL years or past, groove in Inside
OF the bride tooth disappears in horse
Mares very seldom have them. When they
do CO criterion to be guided by
The completion of the main line Of tht
Northern Pacific Railroad by the switchbacl
oyer the Cascades is said 70 0e the mos
. marvellous piece of railroad engineering II
the country. is extent is but 13 miles anC
the cost $3.50, 600 The cost of the Cascad,
division OF the Northern Pacific will reacl
s.. 900 600 The maximum grade on thj
"switchosck'' is 296 feet to the mile Tw,
decaped engines, weighing l25 tons each
are used on each train, one on each end o
six cars. One OF these is ample to Draw
the train, but two are used for fear OF al
accident by the uncouplinG OF the train o.
otherwise. II is estimated that from 35 L
80 freight cars can be haEdled each way
ouer the 'switchback' IN "a hours
The people Of the northern section OF
GreeEyille county. 5. C., are greatly ex.
cited over the flight of Mrs. Jewell, hand
some and accomplished woman, aboui
thirty years old. and the wife OF William
Jewell, a highly respectable. well-to-dC
farmer, with negro named William vii
liams, who lived near by. Last Tuesday
week a note written by Mrs. Jewell to hei
terested parties. In it the eIring Wife told
Williams that she would 60 with him wher
ever be said. and would be faithful TO hin
always. This aroused the anger of the
community, and on Thursday night abou
forty white men started to lynch the negro
but be had fed with the woman.
, "A farmer named Coonrad, who was in
jail at Nelson. Neb., for the murder OF
Thursday last OF another farmer named
, Henry SaIlen, was taken out by 100 men on
day last week, and hanged on q bridge nea
the city. SalIen had just sold load of hog
: for $50 and COonrad saw him draw tn
: money. He asked Sallen IL he could rid
out home With him. Sallen consented an,
the two men left together. Two hours late
Sallen's body was found lying 5y the road
side about two miles west of the town
Suspicion at once fell on Coonrad. Tn
sheriff, accompanied by number of citizen:
went 70 the house. where they found hiu
in clean suit of clothes, while at the bac
a of the house his wife was discovered vast
L ing blood out of a shirt.
b.. Anton Hinderman, of Elizabeth, N J
v goes up every year to Pike county, Pa, {
live in a hut and hunt rattlesnakes II
catches from five to ten every day in th
9 summer, his chief income being derive
: from the oil, which he fries out and sells tC
= 81 or g an ounce, according to the f1uctui
: tions of the market. He does not use fl
= in extracting the oil, because he believe
a that it will spoil If. He says the snake
. must be hung in the sun and allowed to DR.
out slowly in its fierce rays, while the O
= drips from their tails into wide-mouthe
bottles that suspended to them. A lerg
snake yields several ounces of oil, and it
a very small snake that will not Fl an ounC
vial with the greenish oil which is repute
e to be sovereign cure for rheumatism an
q kindred complaints.